I had my first gig in something like 8 years last night. Not counting doing a few songs at Dean's birthday parties at Bocce's Cellar in Santa Cruz each of the last few years. It was very, very small- really kinda a practice gig. Tiny venue, no audience to speak of, mostly people who had heard all the rehearsals ( Read more... )

For those of you who read Narbonic...

( Spoilery speculation follows )

Ok. Those of you who read Girl Genius, I just feel the need to say...
What. The. Fuck??

This is the best thing I have ever seen.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1004061iggypop1.html

Iggy Pop's concert rider.

There are not words for how funny it is.

Also, I finished uploading my Ireland trip pictures- see previous post for URL.

I am finally managing to get some of these online.

http://picasaweb.google.com/madmanatw/

There will be more here as I go through them- up so far are the first two days.

I've been trying to figure out where to upload my trip pictures to. Flickr is no good, they have a bandwidth limit for uploads unless you pay for a pro account, and I just don't do enough of this to do that. I had Photobucket recommended to me, checked it out, it looks fine. But you can only upload one image at a time, and I have 496 ( Read more... )

I'm not sure I can blame this on jet lag anymore, I'm just not sleeping well. :P This morning, with alarm set for 7:30, I woke up at 5 and couldn't get back to sleep at first, then there was a car alarm for a while (not actually going off, but doing the reset "beepbeepbeep" sound once ever 10 seconds or so), and then when I did fall asleep I had a ( Read more... )

A few weeks before the move, I bought my mom a book. I'm leaving for Nashville in the morning and wouldn't you know it, I couldn't find the book. (Also, the cats have rendered both of my suitcases unusable, which is making packing an interesting job ( Read more... )

Today in sword class, Will (our teacher) was having us run through a standard drill and he wanted us to count it in 3s, like a waltz. Then he got an idea and wandered off while we swung our sticks, and he returned... with an accordian ( Read more... )

Ok, my dreams may not be as strange as ursalav's, but still, this one was pretty good.

( My dream, cut for spoilers for the Lucifer graphic novels. Really. I told you they were weird. )